Charlie

This book started out really strong . I cared about the characters and their story. Then the second story started and it became really boring. The new story held little interest for me and was really just a lot of philosophical rambling.

Second read. First was decades ago in my teens when it came out. Still wonderful. A world so rich I can't bear leaving it behind.

I'm not usually in to fantasy but this one grabbed me. Likely because it wasn't pretending to be about kings and queens and dragons and magic. It's all entirely created works with lots of different kinds of sentient life, none of which are human. It helps that Martha Wells is an excellent writer.

This is not like Murderbot at all so don't expect that. But she's still very good at her craft.

Great quick read. But not simple or trashy. Just well written and a great, unique idea. I loved the main character and his dilemma felt understandable. I picked this book up on whim and an m glad I did!

I do not understand how this gets high ratings. I read a lot of sci fi and space opera. This is not well written. The dialogue is flat and the descriptions way too long. This book needed a great editor to cut it by a third, at least. And someone needs to tell the author to back off the thesaurus. Fifty cent words are my necessary to write characters readers care about nor do they make the story feel deep. They're distracting.

This book does not need to be read and I won't be picking anything else up by him

Good. Weird pacing. I think the autor was trying to tell a story about how hard it is to be a new parent without just talking about having a baby. But it made for a hard to follow timeline and pace. Entertaining

Humor writing is hard to get right. Moore does a good job doing that. This is not his greatest but it's good, engaging, funny and the characters are superb. The story was inventive.

Definitely love death. And Mort. And ysabell. And Arthur.

I liked this. It was well placed and the main character was great. Much better written than the sookie novels

Really well written. Lyrical in a lot of spots . Extremely uncomfortable book to read as a white person but I'm glad I did. It's a very clear story about the difficulty of being Black in America and the contradiction of not understanding what it brand to be black. The author is obviously questioning that but also embracing his Blackness and that if many others in a way that makes it clear that being Black is a higher state of being. At the same time, it's also an equal state of being. I imagine it would be an uncomfortable book for many Black people to read as well.